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Chris Gabrieli is an entrepreneur across the fields of business, nonprofits and public policy.

Following the success of GMIS, the healthcare software company he co-founded, Chris joined Bessemer Venture Partners. Throughout his 22 years as a partner with Bessemer, Chris has worked to help other entrepreneurs start and grow their companies.  Chris’ firm has invested over $1 billion in start-up high-tech and biotechnology companies, helping to create more than 100,000 new jobs.  Chris remains active as a Senior Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, focused on biotechnology.

Chris is a committed participant in the civic life of Boston and Massachusetts. He currently serves as Chairman of Massachusetts 2020, which he co-founded in 2000, with the mission to expand the economic and educational opportunities for children families across Massachusetts. Massachusetts 2020 is currently leading Massachusetts' first-in-the-nation initiative to redesign and expand learning time at public schools.

Chris is also the Chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a national education policy organization that works to research how schools expand time to strengthen learning, supports public policy at the local, state and federal level, and provides technical assistance to schools, districts and states seeking to expand time for learning.

Chris’ book (with co-author Warren Goldstein), Time to Learn: How a New School Schedule is Making Smarter Kids, Happier Parents, and Safer Neighborhoods was published in 2008 by the Jossey-Bass imprint of Wiley and is now available in bookstores and online.

In addition, Chris recently served as the Chairman of the Springfield Finance Control Board, overseeing the finances and operations of that city from June 2007 to June 2009, a position to which he was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

He has served on numerous civic and university boards in Massachusetts. In 2002, he won the Democratic primary for Lt. Governor and he came in second in the Democratic primary for Governor of Massachusetts in 2006.  He and his wife Hilary live in Boston and have five school-age children